When I used that program I determined that all the DVDs I had ripped before July 1st (when I upgraded to new version) had used the H.264 codec. Leawo has a program that allows one to examine a video file and determine its parameters. But in the older version it apparently defaulted to H.264 and in the newer version it had defaulted to MPEG4. What Leawo did was to allow the user to select the video codec. I personally have both…and use both…and I find myself using Plex more than Twonky and that goes for the entire family as well. I would recommended just trying out both, though there isn’t much to try with the Plex unless you’re paid, but most often times than not the pretty interface will win you over to pay for a subscription. There are a ton of more pro’s and con’s to both …but it really boils down to your preference and style of use. However, with PLEX unless you pay for the subscription, it’s useless because it only plays for 1 minute before it stops on your mobile device. Whereas with Twonky if you were to just rip your DVD and place the file on your server, it will do just that, which in 99.9% of the cases that’s all we really want. It has a much prettier interface that does all the decorating for you in terms of retrieving all the metadata, movie covers etc…all for you. (In the event you’re in an area that doesn’t have LTE and your stuck on 3G for example…you can decrease the Mbps accordingly to accommodate for the crappy signal, in hopes to prevent buffering…) On the mobile app, you can also select the quality to maximum and or as low as 1Mbps and it looks great even on the lowest setting. mkv file to your server, Plex will then do it’s magic in converting that to whatever it needs to for it to play on your device. If you are a casual user who wants to just stream media from your Computer or NAS (you can choose your server) to your Mobile Devices / Phablets etc… with the ease of not having to worry about any file conversion, Plex is a great choice as it does all the transcoding for you.

(Without the metadata) But most don’t care about having all the info about the DVD as if you’re watching “Avatar,” you’ll probably know that well…you’re about to watch “Avatar.” LOL If you are like mike27oct with Roku, WDTV and other goodies set up, Twonky is a great choice as it’s very straight forward and does the job.This is a great question and like a lot of things, it is very subjective.

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